Greenfield, Anne.
CASTRATION, IMPOTENCE, AND EMASCULATION IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY [electronic resource]. - [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2020. - 1 online resource
This essay collection examines one of the most fearsome, fascinating, and hotly-discussed topics of the long eighteenth century: masculinity compromised. During this timespan, there was hardly a literary or artistic genre that did not feature unmanning regularly and prominently: from harrowing tales of castrations in medical treatises, to emasculated husbands in stage comedies, to sympathetic and powerful eunuchs in prose fiction, to glorious operatic performances by castrati in Italy, to humorous depictions in caricature and satirical paintings, to fearsome descriptions of Eastern eunuchs in travel narratives, to foolish and impotent old men who became a mainstay in drama. Not only does this unprecedented study of unmanning (in all of its varied forms) illustrate the sheer prevalence of a trope that featured prominently across literary and artistic genres, but it also demonstrates the ways diminished masculinity reflected some of the most strongly-held anxieties, interests, and values of eighteenth-century Britons.
9781003005407 1003005403 9781000760668 1000760669 9781000760484 1000760480 9781000760309 1000760308
Masculinity--History--18th century.
Castration in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
HQ1090
305.31
CASTRATION, IMPOTENCE, AND EMASCULATION IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY [electronic resource]. - [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2020. - 1 online resource
This essay collection examines one of the most fearsome, fascinating, and hotly-discussed topics of the long eighteenth century: masculinity compromised. During this timespan, there was hardly a literary or artistic genre that did not feature unmanning regularly and prominently: from harrowing tales of castrations in medical treatises, to emasculated husbands in stage comedies, to sympathetic and powerful eunuchs in prose fiction, to glorious operatic performances by castrati in Italy, to humorous depictions in caricature and satirical paintings, to fearsome descriptions of Eastern eunuchs in travel narratives, to foolish and impotent old men who became a mainstay in drama. Not only does this unprecedented study of unmanning (in all of its varied forms) illustrate the sheer prevalence of a trope that featured prominently across literary and artistic genres, but it also demonstrates the ways diminished masculinity reflected some of the most strongly-held anxieties, interests, and values of eighteenth-century Britons.
9781003005407 1003005403 9781000760668 1000760669 9781000760484 1000760480 9781000760309 1000760308
Masculinity--History--18th century.
Castration in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
HQ1090
305.31